The Future of ISDS/TTIP will be Decided in Karlsruhe (Germany)
After the Fukushima disaster, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party decided in a unilateral move to apply a three month moratorium on nuclear energy as of March 2011. Several months later, the...
View ArticleGuest Blog : Air Transport Services Liberalization
Millions of Americans every year will board airplanes in the United States and fly somewhere else, either within the country, or to a foreign location. As long as they fly somewhere within the United...
View ArticleWelcome Message from WITA’s Executive Director and President of its Board of...
On behalf of the membership and Board of the Washington International Trade Association, we are delighted to follow in the very lofty footsteps of Bill Krist and the Wilson Center in managing this...
View ArticleKrugman Gets It Wrong: Trade Agreements Will Grow the Economic Pie
In a recent blog, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman criticizes the U.S. Chamber’s advocacy in support of the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic trade agreements now under negotiation by the Obama...
View ArticleTPP and Access to Medicines
As yet another round of Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations concluded in New York recently a Washington Post editorial glibly dismissed persistent and growing community concerns on...
View ArticleU.S. Agriculture Interests Getting Grouchy in Trade Debates
Why are US farm interests taking a more aggressive stance? Is it just me, or is there a new, more combative tone coming from US agriculture interests in recent days? The focus of their attack is other...
View ArticleNegotiators Must Say “Aloha” to a 21st Century Trade Deal
This week, chief negotiators from the 12 Pacific Rim countries currently negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement are gathering in Hawaii to continue deliberations surrounding this...
View ArticleISDS is All About Fair Play and American Values
From soccer matches in Europe to Monday Night Football in the United States, referees are a critical component of competitive sports, acting as an impartial party that ensures rules are followed by...
View ArticleThe Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations: time to go for the gold
By: William KristOn Tuesday, July 28, trade ministers from 12 countries will begin a four- to seven-day meeting in Hawaii to try to wrap up negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). If...
View ArticleA ‘Groundhog Day’ Global Economy In 2016?
Click here to read the piece as it originally appeared on Forbes As 2015 closes and we begin the latter half of the 21st century’s second decade, much of the global economy one year on has changed only...
View ArticleDonald Trump and Bernie Sanders Are Delusional on Trade Policy
We import so many parts—and parts of parts—that tariffs and protectionism will only kill jobs and hike prices. In this campaign season of populist anger and demagoguery, bad ideas are bubbling to the...
View ArticleChina Killed 1 Million U.S. Jobs, But Don’t Blame Trade Deals
This article originally appeared on npr.org on April 18, 2016. Economists for decades have agreed that more open international trade is good for the U.S. economy. But recent research finds that while...
View ArticleCelebrating American Ingenuity and Innovation on World Intellectual Property Day
Today on WhiteHouse.gov on April 26, 2016 Today, on World Intellectual Property Day 2016, we join our partners around the world in celebrating the important role that the creative and innovative...
View ArticleThere’s Only a Slim Chance TPP Will Be Ratified This Year
This article originally appears on Fortune.com on May 5, 2016 But it should be. The web offers two definitions for the term “lame duck.” One refers to politicians who are still in office after an...
View ArticleForbes: The U.S. And China Are Both Wrong On Steel
May 23rd, 2016 | By: Daniel R. Pearson The United States and China have begun a “bilateral steel dialogue” to discuss curbing surplus global supplies. China is the world’s largest steel producer and...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Disruptive Technology: 3D Printing Will Not Only Change the Way...
Today’s product regulation and trade regimes resemble World War One cavalry facing off against modern mechanized divisions. It is imperative that we begin the process of entirely reimagining what...
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